Plex/Emby user management and watched status

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Paul1977

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#233432 16-Apr-2018 11:01

I've been using Plex for years, but am currently trying out Emby as I'm beginning to get a bit frustrated with the ongoing bugs in the Plex Xbox One app. At this point though I am not committed to keeping one over the other. I'm also happy to try others.

We use Xbox One as the viewing device.

Here is my issue that I can't figure out a good way to handle:

We have 2 users, sometimes we watch things together and sometimes we watch things separately. When we watch something together I would like the watched status to be marked as watch for both of our users, not just one of them.

From what I can tell neither Plex or Emby support anything like this (at least not in the Xbox One apps), so how do you guys handle this?

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#1996902 16-Apr-2018 11:04

I can't say if it will work the same, but for Kodi I installed trakt for a friend and it does the trick between copies.

https://emby.media/emby-trakt-plugin-updated.html

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#1996911 16-Apr-2018 11:11

Oblivian:

I can't say if it will work the same, but for Kodi I installed trakt for a friend and it does the trick between copies.

https://emby.media/emby-trakt-plugin-updated.html

I think Kodi for Xbox One is still in alpha unfortunately, so who knows when it will be ready for main stream use.

EDIT: Oh wait, is that a server plugin?

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#1997112 16-Apr-2018 14:37

Paul1977:

Oblivian:

I can't say if it will work the same, but for Kodi I installed trakt for a friend and it does the trick between copies.

https://emby.media/emby-trakt-plugin-updated.html

I think Kodi for Xbox One is still in alpha unfortunately, so who knows when it will be ready for main stream use.

EDIT: Oh wait, is that a server plugin?

I've had a play with this, and I don't see how this can achieve what I want.

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#1997129 16-Apr-2018 14:50

I didn't say it would :) But might.

I don't think most would have multiple shared accts to worry about an individual vs group marking. In a Kodi environment you don't have the option.

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#1997131 16-Apr-2018 14:55

Don't know an easy / elegant way to do it, though you can just manually mark episode(s) as watched.

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#1997164 16-Apr-2018 15:36

Oblivian:

I don't think most would have multiple shared accts to worry about an individual vs group marking.

I would have thought it would have been fairly common to have individual accounts, like with Netflix. However you can't do what I want in Netflix either!

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#1997229 16-Apr-2018 18:36

Paul1977: I would have thought it would have been fairly common to have individual accounts, like with Netflix. However you can't do what I want in Netflix either!

This problem won't go away until you get a camera watching you watching the video. How do these systems currently differentiate users? By having different profiles. How does the system know the "correct" person is using the current profile? Are you happy to constantly log in & out of his/her & our profiles?

In Kodi, it's at least easy enough to mark a video or even a complete TV series as watched. How do you mark an item watched in Netflix from within the app, not the web. The web interface does not meet the WAF.

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#1997844 17-Apr-2018 14:29

IcI:

Paul1977: I would have thought it would have been fairly common to have individual accounts, like with Netflix. However you can't do what I want in Netflix either!

This problem won't go away until you get a camera watching you watching the video. How do these systems currently differentiate users? By having different profiles. How does the system know the "correct" person is using the current profile? Are you happy to constantly log in & out of his/her & our profiles?

In Kodi, it's at least easy enough to mark a video or even a complete TV series as watched. How do you mark an item watched in Netflix from within the app, not the web. The web interface does not meet the WAF.

It could be somewhat solved for small households with some kind if user groups that can have their own logins. Would get complicated if you wanted a lot of different combinations though.

For us it isn't a matter of constantly logging in and out, basically just once for each viewing session. Aren't using passwords for local viewing so it is literally just a click of the remote.

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#1997906 17-Apr-2018 15:25

Paul1977:

IcI:

Paul1977: I would have thought it would have been fairly common to have individual accounts, like with Netflix. However you can't do what I want in Netflix either!

This problem won't go away until you get a camera watching you watching the video. How do these systems currently differentiate users? By having different profiles. How does the system know the "correct" person is using the current profile? Are you happy to constantly log in & out of his/her & our profiles?

In Kodi, it's at least easy enough to mark a video or even a complete TV series as watched. How do you mark an item watched in Netflix from within the app, not the web. The web interface does not meet the WAF.

It could be somewhat solved for small households with some kind if user groups that can have their own logins. Would get complicated if you wanted a lot of different combinations though.

For us it isn't a matter of constantly logging in and out, basically just once for each viewing session. Aren't using passwords for local viewing so it is literally just a click of the remote.

Haven't heard of anything that does this. I've been using PLEX for a few years